neurodiverse
What is Neurodivergence?
It's ADHD, Autism, OCD, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bi-polar, aspd, etc etc etc etc
“neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behavior”
So, it’s very broad, if you feel like it describes you then it does as far as we're concerned
Rules
1.) ableist language=post or comment will probably get removed (enforced case by case, some comments will be removed and restored due to complex situations). repeated use of ableist language=banned from comm and possibly site depending on severity. properly tagged posts with CW can use them for the purposes of discussing them
2.) always assume good faith when dealing with a fellow nd comrade especially due to lack of social awareness being a common symptom of neurodivergence
2.5) right to disengage is rigidly enforced. violations will get you purged from the comm. see rule 3 for explanation on appeals
3.) no talking over nd comrades about things you haven't personally experienced as a neurotypical chapo, you will be purged. If you're ND it is absolutely fine to give your own perspective if it conflicts with another's, but do so with empathy and the intention to learn about each other, not prove who's experience is valid. Appeal process is like appealing in user union but you dm the nd comrade you talked over with your appeal (so make it a good one) and then dm the mods with screenshot proof that you resolved it. fake screenies will get you banned from the site, we will confirm with the comrade you dm'd.
3.5) everyone has their own lived experiences, and to invalidate them is to post cringe. comments will be removed on a case by case basis depending on determined level of awareness and faith
4.) Interest Policing will not be tolerated in any form. Support your comrades in their joy!
Further rules to be added/ rules to be changed based on community input
RULES NOTE: For this community more than most we understand that the clarity and understandability of these rules is very important for allowing folks to feel comfortable, to that end please don't be afraid to be outspoken about amendments and addendums to these rules, as well as any we may have missed
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when it comes to men like kirk, i don't really wish death upon them, but their obituaries i read with little weight in my heart. his job as a propagandist and political agitator could be considered stochastic terrorism (new term i learned today), which i can understand. there have been claims made by some that he was a simple man with opinions and a genuine desire to debate and discuss, which i think is a disingenuous way to describe his life's work. he advocated for some vile things and has a book's worth of problematic quotes and stances which i'm sure we're all aware of. but there's a certain level of nuance specifically to why his end attained so much international outcry.
i think the reason why his death has had such immense coverage is due to political violence, to put it bluntly, being very fun to watch. kirk's death got livestreamed from multiple angles with a crowd of 3,000 in attendance having to watch as a man with a voice and a mind full of ideas went limp and dropped dead in less than 10 seconds from his last word. add to that his family sitting in the crowd and the overall gruesome way he went, and you get an entire country's attention and fear and its populous all riled up, no matter if they even knew who kirk was beforehand. america is already in a horrific political climate; every day i wake up and the second i check the news, at least 5 headlines are about american lawmakers or trump doing something cartoonishly evil with millions of people working on apologetics to excuse whatever it is the toddlers in charge have done.
the last time a political actor of any kind got assassinated on live tv was probably jfk, and it's been over 60 years since he passed. as much as it's kind of gross to admit, famous people dying has always been seen as entertainment first and a tragedy second. something about our weird monkey brains makes us attracted to the macabre. i'm not the type to watch gore for fun, but something about the video of kirk getting shot is so strangely alluring that i can't help but rewatch it again, and again, and again. looking closer, zooming in on the details, trying to pick out the events as it happened. and it all happened in a split second. one minute kirk is alive, and the other he's being driven to a casket fitting.
as i'm typing this, the authorities have officially stated that they have "[the] name of person of interest". my only wish is for that person to not be a minority of any kind. even typing it out feels gross. a man was murdered in broad daylight and i'm wishing for his killer to not be on my political side? how rotten has politics gotten? but then i remember the man who was shot, and the things that man said, and the things his friends have said. then it starts making sense. disappointingly, the reaction starts making sense. and i keep refreshing the news, hoping so badly that the people in charge won't use this man's death as a reason for committing another atrocity towards people across the globe from me.
death is a scary thing. grappling with one's own mortality is one of the oldest tales in the book. it's why billions of people pray daily and place such immense faith in a life after death. it's why even thinking about not being here sends our bodies into shock. death is the one thing the brain can't rationalize. we can't really imagine death. it naturally sends humans into a panic. kirk is a mirror to all the conservatives in america and their fear of death. it hits home closer because he was just like them in a lot of aspects. to some, he was their hero. maybe even their friend. and now he's not much more than a corpse.
bottom line is: this specific incident is layered with irony, horror and absurdity. the dead palestinian kids are more straightforward. the world we live in is old and vile, and yet it keeps spinning.